Care, beauty, love. This refrain sings through me. A sacred song I tune in to, over and over. This year, I have been traversing the journey of caretaking loved ones facing serious illness. Others around me are facing their own … Continue reading Care, beauty, love
There are worlds we can believe in. Tepeyac Mountain Sanctuary is one of them. A world of sanctuary wherever we gather. Where we honor our sacred connections with the elements and each other. A world of embodied solidarity and freedom. … Continue reading Tepeyac Mountain Sanctuary
In my mind are millennia of all manner of migrations. The myriad of natural and unnatural circumstances that motivate living beings to change locations. The vastly disparate ways we tell stories of what migration means, depending on the migrant. Liberation … Continue reading Migration and milagros
October is awesome. Savoring each beautiful day. Like a harvest basket, today I’m sharing a mix of topics gathered over the past month or so. May they nourish. As always, thanks for reading and being a loving presence in this … Continue reading Repair, race records, and river revelations…
Why am I compelled to write about tourism in these times of terror? It’s a question I’ve been asking myself as I’ve drafted and trashed essays on this topic in recent months. There are many important things rightfully holding our … Continue reading Tend-er tourism in a time of terror?
Brood XIV of cicadas are now among us, a miraculous 17-year occurrence, a kind of time capsule from 2008. That was the year Krekel and I released our album “Found A Reason” and were featured on the cover of Mountain … Continue reading Loving out loud
South America and North America (and Central America). The Americas. Las Américas. Abya Yala. The latter being the name used by various Indigenous communities and nations, to assert that “land and discourse, territorio y palabra, cannot be disjointed, severed” (Funambulist). … Continue reading Love and Las Américas
At the sight of the destruction, I audibly gasped, cried out NO!, and fell to my knees in the dirt, sobbing. I was knocked down by overwhelming shock and grief. The UNCA woods, a sacred site in my life for … Continue reading What if we could
Being near water is one of my favorite things, be it a creek or a river or lake, or, less frequently, the ocean. I’m partial to waterways in the Appalachian mountains, I’ll take a mountain stream over the sea most … Continue reading Heartbreaks and hope
We All We Got! So true. 2024, whew. Grief and joy, chaos and care. The photos below capture some of what sustained me this year…Mi vida Jason Krekel and our dynamic dog Hattie Mae. Collaborations with Colaborativa La Milpa, STM … Continue reading We all we got
